Memorial piece for Leonard 💔

Oh boy, I've reached Profit and Lace in my DS9 rewatch.

Man, I thought open enrollment though an HR portal was bad enough, but doing it through a COBRA provider is somehow even worse.

Having hands always feels really weird for like 15 minutes after doing VR.

This Saturday! If you're a #trans #nerd in #Seattle, come join us for a gab!

Took a *bunch* of runs, but it finally happened

In Hades 2 I've gotten all the achievements, maxed all my upgrades, and max bond with everyone... *except* Icarus. This little twink is holding out on me but I *will* have him.

"You can handle Squidward rawdogging SpongeBob, but not loving him."

Sudafed is making this cold bearable, but I don't love how twitchy the stimulant aspect is leaving me.

"Video games are cool, but making them seems really hard, so I guess something else with computers," and then picking the same major as the HS friend I went to the same college as. Most of the past 20 years has been me going with the flow from there.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about coming down with a cold after a vacation where I didn't mask. That's squarely on me.

When sci-fi has a robot or alien asking why something in society is a certain way, and the character responds "that's just how it is", it makes me think an autistic person should be part of any first contact. We all have decades of experience taking anthropological views of our own society.

The return Amtrak was way less awesome, and it's only partly because I didn't have another edible for it.

An annoying thing about bingeing book series after they're complete is how each one needs to include reminders about all the story beats for anyone who didn't read the previous entry just last week.

Finally got (mostly) used to the hotel bed on the very last night. 😩

Hades 2 really said you could have multiple pets, and give them treats, and dress them up, and it doesn't get enough credit for that genius.

A week ago, if you had told me that two presidents had had sexual contact, honestly my guess probably would have been Trump and Reagan.

We're eating at a restaurant and when the host came by he handed Megan - specifically - the bill. Megan, under her breath: "Assigned top."

Taking an edible as you get on an Amtrak train is a great move until an hour later when you need to walk around said train.

It's a shame a bear will just absolutely kill the fuck out of you, because they look so snuggly.

Some good fuckin news! www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

As I'm sitting on the couch, I hear a cacophony coming from the kitchen. I look in, and see my wife losing a melee with the food processor, with the most perplexed look on her face. She immediately notices me looking and shoots me the most perfect recreation of "😠" back.

Leonard's at-home euthanasia is scheduled for this morning. If you need me, I'll be a sobbing puddle of grief, fear, and anxiety.

Watching DS9 with Taylor is amazing. An episode will end with a message like "sometimes you (Dax) need to be humble in the name of (Klingon) tradition", and my gay ex-mormon wife will just be like "what the fuck just happened? fuck that!"

I hate DST. I know I "got an hour back", but my circadian rhythm doesn't, so instead it just assertively woke me up at 5am.

I love how every time I buy something online there's a checkbox that lets me imagine for a second that they won't advertise to me via email.

Taking bets on how many emails I'll have from my NAS connecting and disconnecting from its UPS overnight as the weather makes the power flicker. It's already happened twice in the last 20 minutes, so it could really pile up.

The clothes store music from ZA is way too short, and I've got the entire infuriating song stuck in my head in a relentless loop.

I have a 3 minute "special features" video file from one of the seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 that Plex has no fucking clue what to do with, and is interpreting it as a late '80s Chinese sitcom.

We got Leonard a sweater (it's cold and he's balding), and he looks so good in it. His walking is kinda silly though; his front legs take tiny steps, and his rear legs walk normally.

Just accidentally did two interview sessions before realizing it wasn't a remote position. I had even said I wasn't willing to relocate up-front.

Incidentally, she inflicted actual psychic damage by showing me that sentence.

Is mirror universe Julian Bashir also genetically enhanced?

Science communication is so weird sometimes. I was listening to a summary of a new dark matter finding that was like "ordinary matter, like stars and planets, but also all other stuff, like people, hubcaps, and tacos," and like, that's not wrong, but also why those examples in particular?

So I've been learning to make baguettes.

Started learning golang, and each page is a crapshoot whether I'll think "yeah, that makes sense", "oh that's neat!" or "are you kidding me?"

One of Leonard's eyebrow whiskers curls down, and one of his snoot whiskers curls up, and it looks like they connect into one whisker loop.

Hey~ Hi! It's my birthday 🍰 So, if you would be so kind 👉👈and maybe repost my art I would be ever so grateful! I included a WIP that's nearly done! And if you're super-extra-nice please check out Grey Moon Tabletop, and support us (even for free) so I can be an artist for the rest of my life!

The moon was much more cooperative this evening.

I don't have enough arms for all the tattoo designs I think are awesome.

We went to a chocolate convention, and I'm choosing to not look at my credit card.

I'm Brennan's CR tradition, Fire, Earth, Air, it seems that the Fifth Element is Liam. #criticalrole

Ever since I started job hunting again, I've been getting way more spam emails. That's not a huge surprise, but what is is that most of them are Russian dating site related.

Seriously Hades 2 is so huge. All the systems from the original plus a bunch more that add new variety. I just got to Chronos for the first time, and feel like I'm barely scratching the surface.

Tried to bust out the telescope, and the moon has the unmitigated gall to be behind a tree?

Hades 2 was already gonna be a hit with me just by virtue of being "Hades again, but girl", but the fact that you have a little farm is really the icing on the cake.

Second session hurt way worse, but full line work is done now, and it continues to look fucking awesome. Also gotta shout out my artist (who I don't think is on bsky) www.instagram.com/adammillerta...

I'm happy to pay for Seattle Times, and generally appreciate their app's news alerts, but jesus fuck why can't I turn off the sports ones.

When I was a kid, there was an urban legend thing that supposedly the elbow didn't have pain receptors. This tattoo is confirming that to be super untrue.